480 Obituary Notices — Joaquim Felipe Nery Delgado. 



term is a convenient one to pronounce, and may be suggested as an 

 alternative for ' crevasse,' whicli is preoccupied. 



L. ElCHARDSON, 



Cheltenham. 



September 14, 1908. 



OBITTJ-A-I^-S". 



JOAQUIM FELIPE NERY DELGADO, 



For. Memb. Geol. Soc, Lond. 

 Born 1844, Died Augvst 3, 1908. 



We regret to learn from Monsieur A. Torres, the Secretary to the 

 Service Geologique du Portugal, Eua do Arco a Jesus, 113, Lisbon, of 

 the death of Monsieur J. F. i^cry Delgado, Director of the Geological 

 Survey of Portugal, which occurred at Figueira-da-Foz on the 3rd 

 August. Mr. Delgado was elected a Foreign Correspondent of the 

 Geological Society of London in 1887 and a Foreign Member in 1899. 

 He was a retired General of Division, Inspector General of Mines, and 

 Member of the Eoyal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon. Under his 

 directorship the Geological Survey of Portugal has published a long 

 and valuable series of maps and memoirs, illustrated by some veiy 

 excellent plates, beginning in quarto form as far back as 1865, and 

 also in octavo form since 1885. 



Mr. Delgado's first important work was the exploration of the caves 

 in the Jurassic limestone of Cesareda, Portugal, of which he published 

 an account in 1862 (abstract in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xxiv, 

 1868, pt. ii, p. 9). He afterwards devoted special attention to the 

 Palaeozoic rocks of Portugal, and prepared an important memoir on 

 the Silurian for the Geological Survey in 1876. In the course of 

 this research he became interested in the remarkable tracks and 

 markings found in grits, supposed to be of Arenig age, in Central and 

 I^orthern Portugal. He accordingly published his well-known memoir 

 on the so-called Bilohites or Cruziana, with a fine series of illustrative 

 plates, in 1886. He fonned the opinion that these problematical 

 fossils were the impressions of algae. In 1892 M. Delgado described 

 a new Silurian trilobite, Lichas ( Uralichas) Hibeiroi, of very remark- 

 able size, and some years later he published some notes on the 

 minerals and rocks of the Portuguese African possession of Angola. 

 In 1888 M. Delgado attended the International Geological Congress 

 in London, and became personally known to many British geologists. 

 His manner was that of the true scholar, quiet and unassuming, and 

 he endeared himself to a large circle of friends who mourn his loss. 



ns^isoEtjL^^iq-EoxJS. 



Sir Thomas Henry Holland, K.C.S.I., F.R.S., Assoc. R.C.S., 

 Director Geological Survey of India. 



"We are pleased to record that among the recipients of Birthday 

 Honours, Thomas Henry Holland, F.R.S., Director of the Geological 

 Survey of India, has been created a Knight Commander of the Order 

 of the Indian Empire. 



